Polls: Sports

After 3 consecutive championship titles, the U. S. failed last night to advance to the CONCACAF Nation's League final, igniting criticsm from fans online about whether Poccitino is fit for the job.

Some factors boil down to players from European clubs being jet lagged as well as the schedule change, as the final is usually held during the summer, as well as the US team having too long of a break in between games.

But Poccitino's starting line up, substitutions and strategy is also questionable, especially after he went back on his promise of not starting players who get little to no field time in club matches.

The U. S. had bad luck throughout the last decade with coaching and failing to reach major finals and once even failing to qualify for the World Cup.

And with the Gold Cup coming up this year and the World Cup coming up next year, should the U. S. not take any chances and just replace him now, or should they wait to see how we do in the Gold Cup?

The U. S. has historically had the best results with American coaches

Here in New York state it's a vast patronage machine that loses insane amounts of money.

Speaking for myself I have been to the horse track exactly five times in 5 decades. Each one of those times was a family picnic type event either as a kid or me taking my kids. Never going out with the guys kind of thing.

I also think that force racing and dog racing tend to attract the worst kind of degenerate gambler as opposed to casinos.

Well, what do you think? How are things different in other states or countries?

In the realm of running about chasing balls and colliding with other participants in a sport, there are obvious physical contact occasions. This leads to all sorts of notions of how spectators view the players. In this context how do the following sports compare in terms of the hotness of the participants in the eyes of you as a viewer.

No other sports tacitly encourages or even tolerates what is a regular occurrence in hockey. Is is time to crackdown and eradicate it?

What’s your favorite winter sports among them?

I got my money on Francis

We could have either 24 or 32 teams

I want an Eagles win. Sick of the Chiefs

I can't wait for this one!

NOT who you'd like to go but who you think will

Every week since Week 1, two pages on Facebook, NFL Memes and Fake SportsCenter, have been posting stories like this...

Every week, it's been something to the effect of "fans are now convinced that the NFL is rigged", usually if they're whining about the Champs... excuse me, Chiefs. But Green Bay even recently got the "rigged" treatment.

Sometimes, refs make bad calls (and I can admit it when they favor us). And yes, particularly with larger market teams, there's probably bribery and other shady stuff that happens (a lot of good that's done the Bears since '06-'07 😆).

But do you think the NFL is "rigged"?